Rylee

Where Rylee comes from

The dictionaries list Rylee as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Riley — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #8,178 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Rylee Baisden born
    American soccer player
  3. 2002
    Rylee Goodrich born
    American murder victim
  4. 2021
    Peak, #97
    2,718 babies named Rylee — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage, variant of Riley.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, also a modern spelling of Riley.
Namesakes
  • Rylee Goodrich · American murder victim, 2002–2021
  • Rylee Baisden · American soccer player, born 1994
  • Rylee Traicoff · Guyanese association football player, born 2001
  • Rylee Alazraqui · American actress, born 2011
  • Rylee Foster · Canadian association football player, born 1998

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.